Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does not have “enough evidence to convince any jury in America, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the CIA killed his uncle.” That claim is delusional.
Families of assassination victims are often too consumed by grief and emotion to examine the evidence objectively. The King family was duped by one of James Earl Ray’s own attorneys into believing that Ray was innocent and that a vast conspiracy of Army intelligence, the FBI, and CIA had murdered Dr. King. They were wrong. The evidence against Ray alone was overwhelming and remains so. I reviewed it all in my extensive reinvestigation, Killing the Dream, in 1998.
RFK Jr. is trapped in the same emotional prison. He cannot accept that his uncle and his father were killed by lone assassins acting on their own warped motivations. It apparently makes the deaths feel less senseless. But there is no evidence — none — that meets any rigorous legal standard to prove the CIA orchestrated either murder.
Of course, that does not mean that such a conspiracy theory is not popular. It thrives on the paranoia and false narratives that are an integral part of the DNA of social media.
As a sitting Cabinet secretary, repeating this is not brave. It is irresponsible.
Twenty-four-year-old Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. It was the first act of Palestinian terrorism on American soil. RFK paid with his life for supporting the rearming of Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War, targeted by a Palestinian who decided violence was the answer. The parallel to today writes itself.
JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, who had also just turned 24. The overwhelming physical evidence shows that Oswald was the assassin and further study reveals how and why he alone decided to kill JFK. Case Closed, my 1993 book, settled the outstanding questions and nothing since has changed that conclusion.
Get over it. The facts are stubborn. They do not bend to family grief or political narrative.
BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly has enough evidence to convince any jury in America, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the CIA killed his uncle, John F. Kennedy.